The Metropolitan Museum holds one of the finest and most extensive collections of Egyptian art outside Cairo. The Egyptian Art tour spans four millennia and includes an in-depth look at Egyptian funerary practices (mummies, sarcophagi, canopic jars, statuary, etc.) plus sphinxes, royal jewels, the monuments of Hatshepsut, the magnificent Temple of Dendur, and William, the blue faience hippopotamus.
11:30 a.m.